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drakensis (Login drakensis)
Posted Feb 4, 2004 6:30 PM
I'm a litle vague on the beginning of Azusa's reign, but if we're placing it as something in spitting distance of 500 years (formation of Star League) or 700 years (Yosho vs. Ryoko, Fight-O) then it would neatly replace the ReUnification War in the history of the Cameron Sector.
Prior to this era, the six major states and four minor states colonised from that terra-template had been engaged in a 150 year period of warfare. This being the third such interstellar war they had gotten into, most of their neighbours dismissed it as business as usual. However, the warfare sparked considerable technological advances (the BattleMech), particularly in teh Terran Hegemony which was relatively uninvolved but running short on raw materials.
By leveraging their technology and largely intact military, the Hegemony convinced the other 5 major powers to join them in the Star League and forged their combined armies into an massive force rather than leave millions of soldiers at a loose end (historically a bad choice). Having picked off several local neighbours who'd annoyed the outlying members, the Star League wound up with a bad case of overconfidence and compounded it by achieving stratgic surprise against Jurai.
For a while it looked like the Star League would be the third major empire to dominate an entire sector (after Jurai and Taiidani). The damage to the Juraian reputation was such that the Jurians had to divert a lot of their forces to reminding their other neighbours not to be as foolish, and the war settled into a stalemate with the Juraians dominating space wherever they were but hopelessly incapable of being everywhere the Leaguers were. (on the ground, the power of Jurai was almost unstoppable but again, users were so badly outnumbered that it was a stalemate).
With both populations frustrated in the extreme, Azusa negotiated a peace treaty as one of the first acts of his reign, leaving him tied to that policy even after the Star League disintergrated into the Succession Wars.
(And there's an interesting idea. Yosho's mother is human but what if, instead of coming from Tenchi's Earth, she was a human from the Cameron Sector. A marriage of state would be easily explained under those circumstances. And were Yosho to return as Crown Prince, that would give Jurai, through him, a claim on the Star League and an opening to intervene in the Succession Wars. Interesting motivation?)
drakensis
"I believe that forgiving the enemy is God's function. Ours is simply to arrange the meeting." - General H Norman Schwarzkopf
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